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FeaturesBenchmark costs
How much you spend on a school sports hall naturally depends on the project and its specification. Paul Moore of multidisciplinary consultant EC Harris breaks down the benchmark costs of 10 recent schemes to give you a guide
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NewsCan do better
Schools standards minister David Miliband this week named the 14 local authorities that will spearhead the government's Building Schools for the Future plan, which aims to rebuild or refurbish every secondary school in England. In the first wave, due to start in 2005/06, £2.2bn will be shared between 180 schools ...
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NewsSuite Thames …
The £100m regeneration scheme at King's Quay, overlooking the Royal Albert Basin in London's Thames Gateway, is about to go on site. Architect Jestico + Whiles, working with developer Furlong City, has established an urban quarter around the 1882 grade II*-listed Gallions Hotel. More than 440 homes and a hotel ...
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James Barham sells Rialto Homes to Fairview
James Barham, who has a personal fortune of £71m, has sold his housebuilding business to property firm Fairview.
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Setback for schools scheme
The government's £5.1bn programme to refurbish every secondary school in the country has been hit by the resignation of the man leading it.
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Aukett directors face the axe from shareholder
Leading directors of listed architect Aukett face the axe in an extraordinary general meeting to be held next month.
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Detention centre pay row comes to boil
M&E union Amicus is to hold a meeting with more than 60 electricians working on a £45m immigration detention centre near Heathrow airport.
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NewsMPs' outrage at £757m Wembley bill
A leading parliamentary committee this week released a report into the £757m project to redevelop Wembley national football stadium.
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HSE inspectors consider action over 'pay cut'
Health and safety inspectors are to vote this week on whether to take industrial action over their pay dispute.
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Report calls for 200 mph railway network
The Commission for Integrated Transport has called for government ministers to start planning for a network of high-speed railways across the UK.
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NewsGood Reading
Architect Jestico + Whiles has won planning consent for this £7m mixed-use building on the landmark Queens Road island site close to the centre of Reading. It provides 77 homes in three blocks rising from five storeys to eight. Other project team members include Montagu Evans as planning consultant, Watts ...
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NewsAnything you can design …
Richard Rogers Partnership has joined the skyscraper race by submitting a planning application for a 48-storey office tower in the City of London for the British Land Company. The skyscraper would face the architectural practice’s award-winning Lloyd’s Building across Leadenhall Street but rise to 225 m, more than twice as ...
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Colchester PFI deal closes – at last
The £2bn Colchester Garrison PFI scheme reached financial close this week, more than four years after a preferred bidder was appointed.
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Beginning in sight for Battersea Power Station
Construction work on the £600m redevelopment of Battersea Power Station is to start next year, according to Bovis Lend Lease.
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CommentWonders & blunders
James Sunley takes his hat off to the wonders of the Michelin building, then thumbs his nose at David Wilson's anonymous estate
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Housebuilders fight back
HBF warns Kate Barker against ‘rigging’ the land market in favour of office developers or housing associations